Robotic guards will soon patrol South Korean prison
Posted by admin in Robots on 29. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
The possibility of robot workers raises a certain type of futurey allure combined with a sense of danger — in a variety of settings, they could help humans work better and faster, but they could also replace us, or worse, maim us. So how are we supposed to feel about the news of a new [...]
System that recognizes emotions in people’s voices could lead to less phone rage
Posted by admin in Electronics, Robots on 23. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
Nobody likes having to deal with automated telephone services, that say wonderful things like, "You said ‘Beelzebub,’ is that correct?". Such services may get slightly less annoying, however, thanks to research being carried out at Spain’s Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universidad de Granada. A team of scientists from those institutions have created a [...]
The Air Force’s ‘Micro-Aviary’ gives tiny flying robots a place to call home
Posted by admin in Robots on 04. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
The Air Force Research Lab has build a “Micro-Aviary” at Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio where tiny flying robots will be the central focus. And aside from being drone-centric, it is one sweet sensor-filled laboratory. The Micro-Aviary will specialize in what the DoD has deemed the next generation of intelligence and military robot capabilities: tiny [...]
iPet Companion: tele-play with their pets
Posted by admin in Computers, Electronics, Robots on 10. Oct, 2011 | 0 Comments
If you own a dog or a cat and are having a hard day at work, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to take a break and play with them? Well, if you’ve got the money, now you can do it – via the internet. A consumer version of a system already in use [...]
‘Lovotics’ engineers attempt to give robots the ability to love
Posted by admin in Robots on 01. Jul, 2011 | 0 Comments
You can’t buy love, but can you engineer it? A project at the National University of Singapore with all kinds of somewhat unsettling implications is trying to create the means for human-robot love by giving robots all the emotional and biological tools that human have. That means artificial hormones–dopamine, seratonin, oxytocin, endorphin–that ebb and flow [...]
